be.passive magazine: elia headquarters

Michel Nederlandt, who represented Elia here from almost beginning to end, explains with Mattias D’Hooghe and Sabine Leribaux how the project got started, how and why it evolved as design, matured, and how occupants today interact with the built result. Flexibility, crucial both today and tomorrow, is also addressed, with precise aspects such as the building’s modular skeleton and plug-in/plug-out pre-fabricated timber façades depicted.